Variations

To Culion. To lepers isolated for life or until cured on Culion, sombre Philippine island, were shipped last week from Brooklyn a lot of huge cans containing comedies, tragedies, newsreels, 778.000 feet of the best films made in the U. S. last year. No leper critic records the reactions of Culion citizens, called "world's kindest audience," to the canned cargo. But once a year when the films, paid for by organized charity, arrive, the Culionites sing, set off fireworks.

Death Problem. In London one Leslie Faber talked, acted in sound-film White Cargo, died shortly after its completion. Pretending uncertainty whether to exhibit--living and speaking-a man who was dead, the producers asked advice of celebrities. "Show it," said Sir Gerald Du Maurier. "Think," said someone else "what it would be if we could now have a talking motion picture of Henry Irving in The Bells!"

Cell Film. Dr. Alexis Carrel, famed surgeon, put a cinema camera against that part of a microscope to which he usually puts his eye. By adjusting the lens to take one exposure per minute he took a moving picture of the growth, subdivision and death of a living cell and of a cell taken from cancerous tissue. His cell-story, magnified from microns to feet, Dr. Carrel exhibited last week to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

Deaf & Blind. In a theatre on the 50th floor of the Chanin Building, Manhattan, 100 people, some totally blind, some deaf, sat in their seats while Bulldog Drummond was projected on the screen and played on the recording machine. The deaf "listened" through special earphones; a lecturer with a cultured voice explained the action to the blind. The deaf got the most excited, the blind laughed most at funny parts; all applauded at the end, then went home to their respective silence, darkness.